First English Lutheran Church v. Bloch

This is a church controversy. The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Kansas and Adjacent States is an ecclesiastical corporate entity, incorporated under the laws of Kansas, and is an orthodox synod in the United Lutheran Church in America. The Midwest Synod is also an orthodox synod in the same general church organization. The two synods overlap as to some territory and both have member churches in Oklahoma. The First English Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City is an incorporated religious society of the Lutheran faith in Oklahoma City. It was organized in 1902 and incorporated in 1903 under the…